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Listen as Master Weight Loss Coach Cookie Rosenblum shares the secrets for lasting weight loss! Are you a woman who’s known for successfully managing everything in her life? Whether it’s your home, your job or your family, you know how to juggle. But if you typically keep lots of plates spinning in the air, at top speed, you may wake up one day to find yourself last on your own list. And may end up numbing out with extra food, eating your emotions, or binge eating. Don’t worry! There is another way. And Cookie will show you how. You already have incredible skills that you can use to solve your weight and eating issues. You can definitely learn how to lose your extra weight, stop emotional eating and bust through those urges to binge. So that you’ll not only lose that extra weight, but you’ll lose the whole problem.

Episode 102: Listener Questions About Sugar, Caffeine and Alcohol Have you ever wondered if you were the only person in the world who struggled with a particular challenge? Chances are, you’re not. Unique as you are, you’re not alone in this journey

CleanEpisode 101: Using These Podcasts as Your Own Private Coaching Sessions

Episode 101: Using These Podcasts as Your Own Private Coaching Sessions I hope you are loving these podcasts and think of them as private coaching sessions between you and me. That is how I think when I’m recording them for you.

Episode 100: Keep Your Weight Loss Goals on the Front Burner You know what you want to do. You’ve figured out how to do it. And you know what your next step needs to be. But somehow, you get busy. You get distracted. And then, poof! Your goal is gone!

Episode 99: Unearth the Fear that Sabotages Your Weight Loss At this point, you know what you might be doing that holds back from what you want most: permanent weight loss. Maybe you eat before you’re physically hungry.

Episode 98: The Math of Weight Loss Are you baffled about why you weigh what you weigh? Do you just tend to take all the factors that make up weight loss and lump them all together? That’s not how I think about it.

Episode 97: Writing Down Your Weight Do you remember Julia Cameron and her book, The Artist’s Way? It was all about writing each day in order to tap into your creative thoughts. Today, I’m going to share two of the tools I like best from another one

Episode 96: How a Food Journal Can Help You Lose Weight Oh, my goodness! Just the mere mention of keeping a food journal is enough to throw most of my clients into a tizzy. How about you? What memories does the thought of writing down what you eat,

Episode 95: How Complaining Can Stall Your Weight Loss If you’re anything like me, you probably have no idea how often you default to complaining. Complaining about yourself. Your job. Your family. The weather. The slowness of your weight loss.

Episode 94: Don’t Believe All Your Thoughts Wait a minute – you shouldn’t believe everything you think? Aren’t your thoughts true? They sure seem to be the truth. Where do your thoughts even come from? What happens if you question your thoughts?

CleanEpisode 93: What Would You Do for Weight Loss? Self-Care, Treats, Rewards and Bribes

Episode 93: What Would You Do for Weight Loss? Self-Care, Treats, Rewards and Bribes Are you confused when you hear me talking about self-care, and treats, and rewards and bribes? I don’t blame you! These words can be confusing.

CleanEpisode 92: To Reach Your Weight Loss Goals, You Need to Play and Rest!

Episode 92: To Reach Your Weight Loss Goals, You Need to Play and Rest! Are you all about your ‘to do’ list? Even when it comes to Project You? No rest for you! No play for you! Not until you lose those extra pounds. You don’t deserve it!

Episode 91: How to Handle Your Weight Loss Obstacles When you undertake any goal, especially a big one like changing the way you eat to lose your extra weight, you’re bound to run into obstacles. And, you’ll also run into excuses.

Episode 90: What Are Your Weight Loss Expectations? When you set an important goal, like changing how you eat and learning to eat naturally, what do you expect? What do you expect to happen? And how do you expect things to go?

Episode 89: Time Management Interview with Jill Farmer You’re trying to make changes in your life. In how you eat. How you live. And basically, how you show up in this world. And I’ll bet there have been times when you’ve said: “I can’t do it

Episode 88: How to Officially End a Meal Let me guess. Sometimes, it’s hard for you to stop eating. If something tastes good, your meal may extend way after dinner has ended. And you find it hard to declare an official stopping point. Well,

Episode 87: Do You Get Most of Your Happiness from Food? Exactly how much pleasure and happiness do YOU get from food? Do you sometimes feel like nothing else in your life can compete with the rush you get from a delicious dessert?

Episode 86: Getting Over the Hump Whenever you try to change what you typically do, it’s really common to hit the wall. The wall of your old habits. Changing these old habits involves a little discomfort. I like to call the act of dealing with the dis

CleanEpisode 85: How to be Your Own Weight Loss Guru and Why You Should!

Episode 85: How to be Your Own Weight Loss Guru and Why You Should! Here’s what I hear all the time: “Just tell me what to eat!” “Just tell me what to do and I’ll do it!” “Help me do this!” And here’s what I think when my group members

Episode 84: What Are Your Values? Do you know what your values are? What do you believe? How do you choose to live your life? These are questions we rarely sit down and think about. Yet your values rule your life. Or should rule your life.

Episode 83: An Interview with JJ Virgin, Nutrition and Fitness Expert Thanks for joining us today as I interview JJ Virgin, the celebrity and fitness expert. JJ is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Virgin Diet,

CleanEpisode 82: Fullness: A Deeper Look at How to Tell When You Should Stop Eating

Episode 82: Fullness: A Deeper Look at How to Tell When You Should Stop Eating Do you have trouble with the feeling of fullness and stopping eating when you’ve had enough? Welcome to a very large club! Most of my clients find it MUCH easier to know wh

Episode 81: Bad Day? Don’t Eat Your Way Through a Bad Day When was the last time you had a ‘bad day’? Go back to that day and let’s think about it together. Did it feel like things just happened to you that you had no control over?

Episode 80: Weekend Weight Loss or Weight Gain? What does your typical eating week look like? If you’re like I used to be, it would look straight and narrow Monday through Thursday, and wide-open and full speed ahead on the weekend.

Episode 79: Why You May Fear Regaining the Weight You Lose Welcome back, my friend! Imagine that you’ve done it! You’ve held on long enough to change the way you are eating. You’ve stopped eating emotionally.

Episode 77: A Little Tough Love: Why It’s Important to Tackle Your Weight and Eating Issues Do you ever ask yourself: Why bother? Why am I doing this? Who cares about my weight and my eating and what difference does it make? Well,

Episode 76: How to Honor Your Hunger AND Eat with Others I know you’ve probably been working on learning to eat more naturally so your body can get to the weight you’re meant to be. And that means learning to eat when you’re nicely hungry,

Episode 75: Why You MUST Have Clear Guidelines to Lose Weight! You know all those promises you make to yourself? “I’ll do better.” “I’ll be good.” “I’ll eat less.” Well, they are worthless. Sorry to burst your bubble,

CleanEpisode 74: What Will Really Be Different When You Finally Lose Weight?

Episode 74: What Will Really Be Different When You Finally Lose Weight? Do you dream about how things will be different in the future? You know, once you lose weight. Once you eat differently. Once you stop bingeing.

Episode 72: Treat or Snack? Snickers before lunch? Cupcakes before dinner? Fast food after breakfast? What do you eat and when do you eat it? If you’re a regular listener, you know that the first thing you need to do is check in with yourself and make

CleanEpisode 71: Learn How to Trade Your Old Thought Loops for New Ones

Episode 71: Learn How to Trade Your Old Thought Loops for New Ones If you’re like me and most of the people I work with privately and in my groups, you have certain thoughts that are your favorites. These thoughts go around and around in your mind,

Episode 70: Why Do I Keep Saying “Screw It!”? Welcome back! I hope you are enjoying these coaching sessions as much as I am. Have you ever reached the point in your eating and weight loss journey, where things aren’t going well,

Episode 69: Where Do I Start Making Changes for Weight Loss? Do you love these coaching sessions but don’t exactly know where to start? Here is your answer: You start right here. You start with getting really clear on what your problem is. Define it.

Episode 68: Why You Need to Take a Leap of Faith Whether you want to lose weight or stop bingeing, you need to do something differently than what you’ve always done. And when you try to do something differently, you come up against your thinking.

Episode 67: Your Weight and Your Relationship If you’ve ever been romantically involved with someone, and you struggle with your eating and your weight, this coaching session is for you. What effect does your weight have on your relationship?

CleanEpisode 66: Why Taking a Pause in Your Weight Loss is Good, But Why It’s Not Good to Stop

Episode 66: Why Taking a Pause in Your Weight Loss is Good, But Why It’s Not Good to Stop Have you ever made a plan to eat differently, and then failed? Failure in my eyes may be different from how you see failure in yourself. To me,

CleanEpisode 65: Did You Just Overeat? How to Compensate Without Punishing Yourself

Episode 65: Did You Just Overeat? How to Compensate Without Punishing Yourself We all overeat sometimes, especially on our way toward learning how to eat naturally. The important thing to look at when you DO overeat is what you do immediately after.

Episode 64: How to Stop Making the Same Mistakes Do you keep making the same eating mistakes? Over and over again? You know how bad it feels. You see what you’re doing. You see it happening. It’s almost like watching a movie, starring you.

CleanEpisode 63: Why You Don’t Look in a Full-Length Mirror – and Why You Should

Episode 63: Why You Don’t Look in a Full-Length Mirror – and Why You Should Do you own a full-length mirror? If you do, do you actually use it? If you have extra weight you wish you didn’t have, I’ll bet you avoid seeing the reality of how your

CleanEpisode 62: Are You Having a Bad Day? Listen to This Before You Eat!

Episode 62: Are You Having a Bad Day? Listen to This Before You Eat! Are you having a bad day? The reason I ask is that with my clients, so many overeating episodes begin with a ‘bad day’. So, what makes a bad day?

Episode 61: Moving Your Body — Excuses or Obstacles? Are you a woman who moves her body? If you are, you probably will enjoy hearing all the good things you get from moving. If you aren’t, then listen up. I’ll tell you why you should do it.

Episode 60: Making a Plan for Self-Care — How to Do It How well do you take care of yourself? If you’re like many women, you don’t do any self-care until something comes to a crisis point. If you are ready to take your weight loss and eating issue

CleanEpisode 59: The Absolute Worst Thing You Can Eat if You Want to Lose Weight

Episode 59: The Absolute Worst Thing You Can Eat if You Want to Lose Weight Do you wish someone could just give you the magic key to the kingdom and tell you what to eat? How much of your life does binge eating consume? If you want your life back,

Episode 58: Want Weight Loss? Aim for Imperfection! I can just hear you now. No. No. I can’t aim for imperfection. I’m different. I’m special. I’m always at the head of the class. I HAVE to do things perfectly.

Episode 56: How to Get Out of an Eating Slump and Never Give Up! The holidays are over! It’s a new year and we’re all recovering from the indulgences of the past month. THE FREEDOM COACHING GROUP: If you’ve ever dreamed about having your own perso

CleanEpisode 55: How to Eat at a Buffet When You’re Trying to Lose Weight

Episode 55: How to Eat at a Buffet When You’re Trying to Lose Weight Hi there! Do you ever eat in a restaurant? Of course, you do! These days we all eat out more than ever before. And one of the most fearful eating experiences when eating out is deali

CleanEpisode 54: Do You Struggle with Deciding WHAT to Eat? Here’s What to Do

Episode 54: Do You Struggle with Deciding WHAT to Eat? Here’s What to Do There are so many components to eating well for health and weight loss AND freedom! Knowing when you’re hungry. Knowing what to eat. Knowing when to stop.

CleanEpisode 53: How to Feel Good in the New Year No Matter What You Weigh Right Now!

Episode 53: How to Feel Good in the New Year No Matter What You Weigh Right Now! Happy New Year! If you’re here in this coaching session in January, you may be thinking about starting fresh for the new year.

CleanEpisode 52: The Top 8 Concepts About Weight Loss and Eating that You Learned This Year: What You Need to Know to Succeed

Episode 52: The Top 8 Concepts About Weight Loss and Eating that You Learned This Year: What You Need to Know to Succeed It’s hard to believe it’s been a year! This is our 52nd episode of Weight Loss Made Real and I hope you’ve enjoyed your coachi

Episode 51: The Best Question to Ask Yourself that Helps Solve Your Weight Loss Issues Do you ever listen to the thoughts that go around and around in your mind? You probably are so engaged with the self-talk you always do,

CleanEpisode 50: End Emotional Eating with Extreme Self-LOVE: An Interview with Margie Beiswanger

Episode 50: End Emotional Eating with Extreme Self-LOVE: An Interview with Margie Beiswanger Did you know that almost all good coaches have their own coach? I love being coached in all different areas. It’s a way for me to stretch myself to become the

CleanEpisode 49: How to Say ‘No Thanks’ to Food When You’re Not Hungry

Episode 49: How to Say ‘No Thanks’ to Food When You’re Not Hungry How many times have you eaten without being hungry? If you’re like my clients, and me, I’ll bet it’s been many times. Maybe it’s even a regular part of how you live.

Episode 48: Tough Love: You Are Not Your Weight! Join me today for a tough love session. I want you to know how small your weight is in the big picture of you. Of who you really are. I know how much you worry about the number on the scale.

Episode 47: How to Divide Your Day to Manage Your Weight! Do you ever feel like your day is running amok from the moment you wake up until the moment you crash on your pillow at night? So many women just like you go, go,

CleanEp 46 Question from a Listener — How to Know When to Eat and When to Stop

Episode 46: Question from a Listener — How to Know When to Eat and When to Stop I love my listeners! And that includes you! In this podcast, I talk about a letter I got from one of my listeners, with her permission. Like many of us,

Episode 45: Why Cleaning Out Your Closet Can Help You Lose Weight I’m so glad you’re here! Today our coaching session is all about two concepts that seem so unrelated, but are very much connected. Did you ever imagine that cleaning out your home,

Episode 44: Do You Think Weight Loss is TOO Hard? When was the last time you caught yourself saying, “This is just too hard!”? When you’re changing your eating to eat naturally and get to a comfortable weight, there will be challenges.

Episode 43: Emotional Eating: Why You Need to Feel ALL Your Feelings Are you selective about what you let yourself feel? I’m talking about your emotions. Sad, happy, worried, angry or lonely. The good and the bad.

Episode 42: Stop Your Stress Eating, Part 2 I’m back with part 2 of Stress Eating, to help you disconnect your stressful emotions from eating without hunger. If you listened to Episode 40, you’ll remember that we talked about your stress eating.

Episode 41: Weight Loss and the Working Woman Are you a woman who works? Maybe you work managing your family, from morning until night. Or perhaps you’re a working woman in an office setting, employed by a company. Either way, join the ranks.

Episode 40: Why You Overeat When You’re Stressed If you’re alive, you have stress. If you have a job, some friends, or maybe some obligations, you have stress. We all have stress in some form or another, and yet we don’t all eat in reaction to it.

Episode 39: What to Do When You Feel Like Quitting Let’s face it. You’ve probably given up on your eating and weight goals a few times. Or maybe more than a few times. You may be intimate friends with the art of giving up. Quitting. Walking away.

CleanEp 38 Want to Lose Weight? Let’s Look at the Patterns that Caused You to Gain It — Part 2 of 2

Episode 38: Want to Lose Weight? Let’s Look at the Patterns that Caused You to Gain It. Part 2 of 2 I know you’ve struggled. I know you don’t totally get why you can’t lose this weight. But I do know how you can permanently lose the weight AND l

CleanEp 37 Want to Lose Weight? Let’s Figure Out Why You Gained It First — Part I of 2

Episode 37: Want to Lose Weight? Let’s Figure Out Why You Gained It First. Part I of 2 All my clients are in a big hurry to get to their weight goal. They don’t want to waste a moment; they just want to get to the end.

Episode 36: Do You Really Need to Cook to Eat Well and Lose Weight? Both sides of a good question. Are you a gourmet cook? Me neither! Sometimes I’m a takeout queen, and other times I’m prepping food for a healthy week.

Episode 35: Losing the Weight AND Losing the Struggle Imagine this: You’re in the process of losing weight, or perhaps you have already lost weight and now want to maintain it. And now you find yourself worrying about situations like going to a restau

CleanEp 34 Want a Treat? Here’s How to Lose Weight AND Have Treat Foods

Episode 34: Want a Treat? Here’s How to Lose Weight AND Have Treat Foods Gone are the days of super-strict diets of cottage cheese, broiled chicken and steamed broccoli. At least I hope those days are gone for you.

CleanEp 33 Guest Interview with Corinne Crabtree of Phit-n-Phat: How Prepping Your Food Ahead of Time Can Make Your Weight Loss So Much Easier!

Episode 33: How Prepping Your Food Ahead of Time Can Make Your Weight Loss So Much Easier! Guest Interview with Corinne Crabtree of Phit-n-Phat. Today, I am proud to present my colleague Corinne Crabtree. Corinne lost 100 pounds over 10 years ago by ta.

Episode 32: How to Get Past Your Greatest Weight Loss Fears It’s inevitable. Just like clockwork. It always comes up. All my clients think this. Sometimes it comes up early, in the consultation. Other times it comes up after a couple of coaching sessi

CleanEp 31 When it Comes to Weight Loss, Must You Always Keep Your Promises?

Episode 31: When it Comes to Weight Loss, Must You Always Keep Your Promises? How to Know When to Keep Your Promise to Yourself and When to Negotiate a New One You have a goal. Check! You have a great reason for losing weight. Your big ‘why’. Check!

Episode 30: Why Better is the New Perfect When It Comes to Weight Loss Do you aim for perfect? Or do you aim to do things better than you’ve been doing them? If you aim to be better, you’re in luck! Aiming to be better is the proven way to make chan

CleanEp 29 Is Your Procrastination Getting in the Way of Your Weight Loss?

Episode 29: Is Your Procrastination Getting in the Way of Your Weight Loss? If you’re anything like me, I’ll bet you’ve procrastinated a time or two in your life. And I’ll also bet that even with something you want very, very much,

Episode 28: How to Make Your Weight Loss Project THE Priority Are you on your own ‘to do’ list? Let’s say you decide you want to lose weight. And you make a plan, and get everything you need to do all lined up. You’re ready. But somehow,

Episode 27: The 5 D’s of Busting Through Your Overeating, Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Have you ever faced down some food that you really wanted to eat and just gave in and ate it? Even if you weren’t hungry?

CleanEp 26 Just Tell Me What to Eat! How to Love the Foods that Love You Back and Eat Like a Naturally Slim Woman

Episode 26: Just Tell Me What to Eat! How to Love the Foods that Love You Back and Eat Like a Naturally Slim Woman The biggest question my clients have when they first come to me is this: “What should I eat?” And that is their biggest desire.

CleanEp 25 How to Make Eating Choices All Day Long that Lead You to Weight Loss

Episode 25: How to Make Eating Choices All Day Long that Lead You to Weight Loss If you’ve ever sat down and listed all the different choices you made in one day, you’d probably be exhausted just thinking about it!

CleanEp 24 How to Recover from an Eating Slip from Any Weight Loss Program

Episode 24: How to Recover from an Eating Slip from Any Weight Loss Program Have you ever been on a weight loss plan or program and had an eating slip? Eaten something you wish you hadn’t? Of course you have! Why? Because you’re human.

CleanEp 22 How Fear of Deprivation Makes You Overeat and What to Do About It

Episode 22: How Fear of Deprivation Makes You Overeat and What to Do About It Are you at risk for being at the mercy of deprivation? Well, not real deprivation. All it takes is you believing that not getting what you want means you are deprived.

Episode 21: Half Size Me: An interview with Heather Robertson about Major Weight Loss and What It Takes to Lose Over 100 Pounds Join me for a special interview of my colleague, Heather Robertson, founder of the Half Size Me Community.

Episode 20: Are You Waiting for the Perfect Time to Lose Weight? Are you waiting until the perfect time to commit to losing weight and taking care of yourself? You may even have done this multiple times, and then when that time or date came,

CleanEp 19 Weight Loss and Self-Esteem: Your Self-Image and Your Self-Esteem and How They Affect Everything!

Episode 19: Weight Loss and Self-Esteem: Your Self-Image and Your Self-Esteem and How They Affect Everything! We all talk about self-esteem and self-image. We have a vague idea that these concepts play into how we feel about ourselves.

CleanEp 18 How to Handle Parties, Holidays, Special Occasions, and Travel While You’re Working on Losing Weight

Episode 18: How to Handle Parties, Holidays, Special Occasions, and Travel While You’re Working on Losing Weight Have you ever thought that if only your office didn’t have so many snacks around, you’d do better on your weight loss plan?

Episode 17 Stop Emotional Eating and Lose Weight Through Incredible Self-Care Self-care is a term that’s been thrown around since the 80’s. We all give it lip service but when it comes to doing it or even understanding it,

CleanEp 16 How to Feel Good When You Get on the Scale, No Matter What You Weigh

Episode 16: How to Feel Good When You Get on the Scale, No Matter What You Weigh Have you ever stepped on the scale in the morning and watched as the rest of your day went totally downhill? Or rejoiced because the number on the scale went down,

Episode 15: What to do When You Get the Urge to Binge If you’ve ever experienced the urge to binge, or even the urge to escape an uncomfortable emotion by running to food, you know how powerless you can feel.

CleanEp 14 You Need to Stop Hating Yourself in Order to Lose Your Extra Weight

Episode 14: You Need to Stop Hating Yourself in Order to Lose Your Extra Weight You want to lose weight. You want to stop your bingeing. And you definitely want to stop eating emotionally. But wait, before you can do those things,

Episode 13: Understanding and Ending Your Emotional Eating Emotional eating gets almost all of us at one time or another. It’s hard not to fall prey to feeling bad about something in your life and running for the cookies and ice cream.

CleanEp 12 Your Focus Determines How Well You Do on Any Eating Program

Episode 12: In the weight loss arena, what are you doing right? Where you put your focus determines how well you do on any eating program When I talk to my private clients, they can’t wait to tell me all the things they have done wrong.

CleanEp 11 Your Eating Habits: What They Are, How You Get Them, and How to Change Them

Episode 11: Your Eating Habits: What They Are, How You Get Them, and How to Change Them Most of us know which eating habits help us, and which ones hurt us and take us further and further away from our goals.

Episode 10: Where to Start on Your Weight Loss Journey: Conquer Your Overwhelm and Perfectionism It’s more common than you think to be filled with feelings of overwhelm when you begin an eating program. When you’re working on your body,

Ep 9 Master Your Weight Loss: Get Yourself To Do the Right Thing If having self-discipline sounds like the most boring, toughest thing you can do, and don’t want to do, then you need to listen to today’s podcast.

CleanEp 8 Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide: A Special Interview with Kathryn Hansen About Binge Eating

Episode 8: Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide: A Special Interview with Kathryn Hansen About Binge Eating So many of us struggle with binge eating. You may suffer greatly, and see no way out. But there is a way out, and Kathryn Hansen has found it.

Episode 7: Managing Your Mind to Manage Your Emotional Eating If you are challenged in any way with your eating or your weight, and worry about how much you eat and what you eat, you’re in for a surprise. Because the more important focus really should

Episode 6: Troubleshooting When to Start and When to Stop Eating Eating when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re not sounds so simple! It is simple, but can also be challenging. Let’s work through that challenge together.

Episode 5: Working on Project YOU: Creating Your Weight Loss Blueprint Today you’re going to get a handle on a major shift in how you think about losing weight or changing how you eat. If you’ve struggled in the past,

Episode 4: The 3 Essential Parts of Solving Your Eating Problems Join me as I share my philosophy about what’s most important in ending your eating problems: Hint: it’s far from just what you eat! How to think about managing your life.

Episode 3: How To Eat Like a Naturally Slim Woman Your take-aways from this podcast episode are: How to know when to start eating, no matter what. How to know exactly when to stop eating – with no guesswork and no regrets.

Episode 2: Let’s Begin Clearing Your Path to Weight Loss Success! Here’s what you’ll get clarity on in this episode: Why being ultra-clear on your weight loss goals is essential to reaching them. How painting a detailed picture of yourself in the

Episode 1: Do You Overeat, Binge Eat, or Eat Emotionally? Welcome to the first episode of the Weight Loss Made Real Podcast! Today we’re talking about the difference between emotional eating, binge eating and compulsive overeating.

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A new podcast that helps get to the real problems that make losing weight difficult.

Cookies's voice is so soothing and easy to listen to...like you are having a private conversation with her.

A breath of fresh air in the weight loss/overeating realm

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KCLAnderson

The concept of being able to edit my emotions hit me right where it counts. Thank you for such a thoughtful discussion about the various types of overeating and how to look more objectively at them (and myself).

A must listen!

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mandelovich

Cookie Rosenblum is THE BEST coach out there for weight loss and mind management. Her wisdom, compassion, and thoughtful approach are unmatched. I cannot recommend this podcast and all of her work more highly. She was instrumental in helping me find freedom from food/weight issues.